John Parkison, MBA

***** ********* ****** ***** ***** Shores, MI 48082

313-***-**** cell fcramc@r.postjobfree.com

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

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Strategy & Business Development Resource Planning Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures

Operations Asset Management Risk Management

Entrepreneurial executive combines experience as a founder and CEO of multiple startups with more than fifteen years success developing products, leading global programs, and building infrastructure for Fortune 10 corporations. An innovative leader who builds partnerships, communicates effectively and institutes initiatives to create positive change to foster company growth and optimize return on investment.

Drives results, innovation, best practices, consistency and top performance across all markets, environments and cultures. Leads and delivers large, complex initiatives, ensuring relevance, quality, and timeliness. Works closely with sales, marketing, operations, IT, and financial teams to understand their issues, seek out underlying or latent problems and create responsive solutions. Extensive qualifications in the following competencies:

Account Management Program Management

Budgeting & Forecasting Product Lifecycle Management

Team Leadership, Training & Mentoring Supplier & Contract Management

Cross-Cultural & Cross-Functional Management Direction, Re-engineering of Mission Focus

CAREER SYNOPSIS

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Great Lakes Futures, LLC, St. Clair Shores, MI 2003-Present

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Founded, develops strategy, and successfully operates a Commodity Trading Advisor business specializing in managed futures investments. Leads marketing and sales, product development, business development, operations, budget management, and CFTC regulatory compliance. Negotiates client trading and fee agreements. Manages relationships with third party accounting, legal and trade execution supplier-partners. Oversees trade execution and system development. Nurtures and optimizes interactions with industry advisors and partners.

Created and operates systematic managed futures program that trades in 80 global commodity markets

Manage assets for clients in Europe and United States.

Created and operates a systematic leased systems service offering to a growing number of clients in Europe and United States.

Has assembled and leads a virtual team, located throughout the United States, of trading, legal, accounting and compliance specialists, partners, suppliers and industry advisors.

Currently leading expansion into the Florida market through joint venture with local brokers. Joint ventures in other key markets are currently in the incubation stage.

Leads product development through on-going research, technology development and constant improvement of system development methodology and trading systems.

Arystos Enterprises, LLC 2000-2003

PRESIDENT

Founded and operated 300-unit vending business in the Detroit-metropolitan area. Established the routes, product ordering and inventory processes. Recruited, employed and developed compensation plan for a team of 5 field sales and service personnel. Created and managed operations procedures including accounting, legal and on-going unit placement.

Secured $60K in financing to acquire 300 vending machines

After 3 years of successful operations, sold the business in order to move into the trading business.

Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI 2003 - Present

Multinational Automobile Manufacturer

PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER, PMO MANAGER

Plans, leads and directs portfolio program management and governance including estimating, scheduling, forecasting, budget management, and project billing. Oversees, and ensures professional development of managers and project managers. Champions methodologies, processes and tools used on a global basis including resource management, project billing, risk management, issues management, supplier management and delivery. Delivers large programs for global organization. Responsible for infrastructure delivery and PMO management for North America-, South America-, Asia-Pacific and Europe-led projects. Reports to Director of Infrastructure and Technical Operations

Led governance for over 300global infrastructure projects annually and programs ranging from $1 thousand to over $40 million.

Teamed with global finance and purchasing organizations to develop and manage $200 million infrastructure budget.

Led $60 million infrastructure transition program for Volvo spinoff; handled data center expansion, separation of over 500 applications, 80 offices and 25 thousand employees.

Led $100 million Jaguar-Land Rover separation, handling data center construction and buildout, separation of over 1000 applications, 100 offices and 35 thousand employees.

Upgraded IBM P-Series, Teradata and server environments and enhanced disaster recovery for an $8 million enterprise financial systems technology refresh in 12 months

Managed $2 million budget; upgraded hardware and software for 51 applications within the IBM Websphere in 9 months

Established VMWare pilot B2C environment which later became a standard service offering.

Established governance, project management, and customer engagement processes and reporting for 3 year initiative to convert 5000+ servers to an IBM-server standard including hosting software and middleware.

Executing $10+ million per year budget, 5-year plan to expand global PMO into growth markets China, India and Russia.

Managed Asia-Pacific portfolio of 30+ projects requiring North America and Europe support, ensuring funding, resources, governance, risk management, issues management, supplier management and timely delivery.

Superior Consulting, Southfield, MI 1997 -2003

Healthcare IT consulting company.

PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER, PMO MANAGER

Led IT business systems team of ten project managers, business analysts and process engineers. Handled project management, Information Technology delivery, business analysis, process re-engineering, and merger and acquisition services to fuel growth and expansion. Created, staffed and led the project management office. Implemented IT system development and process re-engineering methodologies and PM processes and tools.

Oversaw integration and change management activities involving people, processes, tools, best practices and intellectual property resulting from growth from 400 to over 1400 employees through 5 separate acquisitions over a 3-year period.

Integrated, consolidated and re-engineered the sales and marketing, resource management and IT processes and systems resulting from five mergers and acquisitions.

Conceptualized and created the Company’s first CRM practice that later became a multi-million dollar business line.

Successfully conceptualized, managed and delivered three enterprise-level systems projects for Financial, CRM and Resource Management business functions.

Implemented Lawson Financials and Procurement package; managed $1.5 million budget and all aspects of the project from RFQ to implementation.

Led 12-month development of proprietary Customer Relationship Management system

Directed implementation of Novient Consultant Resource Management application and supported resource management processes to improve consultant utilization rate and provide streamlined controls. $1 million, 12 month project.

Electronic Data Systems, Southfield, MI 1989-1997

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Handled delivery of IT solutions including support for Chevrolet Marketing and Sales, Application Development for the Chevrolet national order and distribution systems supporting over 5000 dealers, and project management and process re-engineering.

Graduate of Systems Engineering Development program, certified Lotus Notes Professional and mainframe application development expert.

U.S. Army, 3rd Signal Brigade, Ft. Hood, TX 1982-1986

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER, ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN

Technical support for electronic switching systems. Handled tactical central communications operations and deployment of equipment and team, training and promoting general team welfare and performance. Held Top Secret-SBI clearance.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

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Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Masters degree in Business Administration

University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE

Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration

ASSOCIATIONS, LICENSES & COMMUNITY

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Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

Series 3 – Commodities and Futures

PMI Institute, Member

National Futures Association, Member

Fitness and yoga instructor/consultant in support of Ford Health and Wellness program (non-paid)

Parkison, John 313-***-****

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